I am using the following CSS font-family setting for Networknet.nl font-family:”Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;. When opening Networknet.nl blog on a Linux machine Firefox displays my blog as show below; the fonts are not corresponding with my style sheet. Why ;) ? My Ubuntu has no Lucida Grande fonts installed. Common Windows Fonts are not installed by default  on Linux and some can be installed afterwards. After installing the msttcorefonts package I was  still missing the Lucida Grande.

The msttcorefonts contain the following fonts:

  • Andale Mono
  • Arial Black
  • Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  • Comic Sans MS (Bold)
  • Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  • Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  • Impact
  • Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  • Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  • Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
  • Webdings

These can be installed with running sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts .

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I found a good post how to get the Lucida Grande font but than I was forced to install wine and safari applications. If you own a Windows installation and than you can copy the fonts from your C:\Windows\Fonts directory and place them /usr/share/fonts/ttf and that’s what I did.

Don’t forget to get them configured. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. After restarting Firefox my blog was pretty much as on Windows.

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Font is OK now, but still some things with spacing. Anyway this is how I quickly got my Windows fonts on Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 desktop machine.

Some links for Linux and Fonts

http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/msttcorefonts

http://www.convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html

http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html